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national / environment Saturday November 11, 2006 - 19:19 by Shell-To-Sea-Reading   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 11, 2006 - 20:03)
Inspired by last weeks action, activists have again targetted Shell with protest and direct-action in Reading. Overnight, activists reported that they had turned off the pumps at the Shell petrol station on Shinfield Road, Reading using the emergency shut-off switch on the wall of the shop, ready for the morning rushhour on 10th November. Later in the evening, 8 people held a protest outside the garage shop, opposite the pumps, giving out 200 leaflets and holding a banner demanding "S-HELL OUT OF IRELAND!"
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Saturday November 11, 2006 - 17:43 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 14, 2006 - 16:59)   image 10 images
Bin Tax campaigners were angered at the garda presence at the Suir Road depot this morning for the weekly protest. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday November 11, 2006 - 16:44 by Qasim Rajpar
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Network for Consumer Protection has welcomed the Islamabad district administration’s step to formally bring smoking in public service vehicles under traffic offenses. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday November 11, 2006 - 16:36 by Qasim Rajpar
Karachi city Nazim (Mayor) Syed Mustafa Kamal has announced provision of 260 containers for garbage lifting vehicles to facilitate town administrations.

Addressing a meeting of town nazims at Civic Centre on Saturday night, the nazim said that the city government decided to give four iron containers for every garbage lifting vehicle so that speedy removal of garbage could be ensured. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 10, 2006 - 16:44 by Labour Youth   text 9 comments (last - sunday november 12, 2006 - 11:52)   image 5 images
Members of Labour Youth marked the anniversary of Ken Sara Wiwa's murder by protesting outside Fianna Fail Headquarters on Lower Mount Street. There was a good response from members of the public who were leafletted and members of Labour Youth held placards saying "Shell 2 Sea" , " Nationalise our Gas" and "FF gave our Gas Away".

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dublin / environment Friday November 10, 2006 - 15:53 by Jonah   text 3 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 - 16:14)
Wreath laid at SHell HQ ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday November 10, 2006 - 12:25 by Wedneday   text 74 comments (last - monday july 16, 2007 - 15:13)   image 1 image
Details of action taken against Shell on the anniversary of Saro-Wiwa in Mayo ... read full story / add a comment
How the site gates now look.
mayo / environment Thursday November 09, 2006 - 16:52 by Eve   image 1 image
As the siege enters its sixth week Shell to Sea campaigners continue to maintain their morning pickets of Shell’s refinery site. Security outside the gates has been stepped up with the erection of a six-foot tall sheet metal fence around the main site entrance late last week. Around the same time Shell to sea signs were removed and defaced by Gardaí including one reading “community under siege”. Gardaí also ordered that the Shell to sea H.Q. trailer be moved. The trailer was moved a nominal few feet down the road and the picket continues.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 09, 2006 - 16:21 by Cillian Gillespie   text 2 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 - 21:13)
by Rosemary Byrne (MSP) and Tommy Sheridan (MSP), MSP's for Solidaity-Scotland's Socialist Movement ... read full story / add a comment
Niall Harnett V Sgt. Conor O'Reilly & An Garda Síochána.
mayo / environment Thursday November 09, 2006 - 01:23 by Niall Harnett   text 35 comments (last - friday november 09, 2007 - 11:37)   image 14 images
Over recent weeks there have been a number of confrontations between Niall Harnett and Sgt. Conor O’Reilly & Gardai, at the proposed Shell Corrib Gas Refinery Site, Bellanaboy, culminating last week in the breaking of Niall's driver’s window in order to forcibly remove him from his van, and the theft under ‘colour of law’ of that van by O’Reilly on Tue 31st Oct. In the High Court on Tue 7th Oct, Mr Justice Michael Peart granted to Niall an injunction against O’Reilly from further damaging or disposing of his van, which O’Reilly had threatened, and leave to seek an order for it's release without condition. Other ‘reliefs’ applied for are a ‘declaration’ by the High Court that the van was held unlawfully and that O’Reilly and An Garda Síochána have acted ‘Ultra Vires’ - the legal term for 'exceeding their powers granted by law’, which in this case would mean simply that they broke the law. ... read full story / add a comment
Does that Shell logo look funny?
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 20:59 by Ciarán   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 09, 2006 - 20:09)   image 5 images
With everybody gearing up for the national day of action on 10th November, some artwork appeared in West Belfast getting the word out on what the day's about. ... read full story / add a comment
ETA leader & hunger striker José Ignacio de Juana Chaos at the moment of his sentancing.
international / crime and justice Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 18:25 by ipsiphi iosaf   text 7 comments (last - monday january 22, 2007 - 20:02)   image 4 images
ETA prisoner José Ignacio de Juana Chaos has commenced another hunger strike. He did so on the eve of his sentancing in protest against the expected term of 12.5 years, which has been handed down by the Spanish court this sentance is for promoting terrorism , [ de Juana Chaos authored a series of articles calling for the continuation & escalation of ETA's armed campaign. ]

The Spanish prime minister Zapatero has said in a statement that he expects the sentance (by the independent judiciary) will further complicate the nascent Basque Peace Process. Already most observers recognise that the process is in crises, the internal ETA magazine only a week ago threatened a return to violence if political progress in not seen to be made by late Autumn. Though critics of Basque seperatism would point out that since late Spring over 120 incidents of arson have been attributed to the group & one theft of 350 arms. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 10:46 by AWI Cobh   text 18 comments (last - monday november 20, 2006 - 22:53)   image 6 images
Anti-War Ireland held a successful protest at the presence of a US warship in Cobh, County Cork last night. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 02:08 by Shell to Sea   text 11 comments (last - saturday november 11, 2006 - 00:40)   image 5 images
Councillor Daithí Doolan of Sinn Féin submitted a question to the City manager at the November Dublin City Council Meeting to clarify why DCC vehicles are being supplied with petrol from Shell.

Many people in Dublin, including a lot of DCC staff, have expressed dismay that the Council has an exclusive deal whcih means that they must refuel at Shell garages.

A large crowd from Shell to Sea joined the Sinn Féin councillors before the meeting to show support for Daithí's suggestion that the deal be scrapped. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 06, 2006 - 22:46 by Political Hostage   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 - 17:46)
The ongoing Omagh civil litigation has been listed for 16th April 2007 when the case is expected to finally get under way. Even at this early stage, many observers in the legal profession consider it, as being prejudiced, deeply flawed and under the present format it can only return an unfair and dishonest judgment. The British authorities have the case structured in such that it will deny the defendants any hope of defending themselves in the case. ... read full story / add a comment
People gathering
national / miscellaneous Monday November 06, 2006 - 17:37 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 10 comments (last - thursday november 09, 2006 - 14:45)   image 20 images
The March began at the old railway station in Navan town at Railway Street to draw attention to the fact that this alternative mode of transport has not been seriously considered by the planners. A large crowd gathered, long time campaigners, new campaigners, families with small children who had their faces painted, sported Save Tara stickers and carried balloons.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 05, 2006 - 18:27 by Boycott Killer Coke campaign   text 19 comments (last - thursday november 09, 2006 - 05:34)   image 10 images
A large number of 30 - 40 activists leafletted todays GAA compromise rules match in Croke Park that was sponsored by Coca Cola. Thousands of leaflets were distributed to GAA fans exposing the human rights abuses of Coke in Colombia and India. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 05, 2006 - 16:52 by John Jefferies   text 24 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 - 09:29)   image 3 images
A huge United States navy guided missile destroyer once again sits at the quays in Cobh at the centre of Cork Harbour, her presence causing the closure for the third time in six months of the popular local walking path known as the Five Foot Way. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 03, 2006 - 21:43 by TJ   text 11 comments (last - tuesday november 14, 2006 - 20:25)   image 6 images
Outside a blot on the landscape, sometimes called the Westside Shell Service Station, In a pellucid , ineffable moon-lit late evening, for two hours, Shell to Sea activists, metaphysically mutated Galway's Mammon conscience into something more pristine, by bearing witness to the beleaguered people of Rossport.

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international / gender and sexuality Friday November 03, 2006 - 12:59 by Cian   text 25 comments (last - thursday november 09, 2006 - 14:08)   image 2 images
A Gay Pride demo will be held in Jerusalem, on 10 November, against a background of vicious incitement and homophobic propaganda by reactionary Jewish and Arab organisations. This follows a similar campaign running up to the June 2005 Gay Pride demo, which lead to the stabbing of three demonstrators by an ultra right-wing settler (who was sentenced to 12 years in prison). These groups are attempting to whip up hatred and intimidation in to prevent people from attending the demonstration. ... read full story / add a comment
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